Lynsey Harris sat down with Red Cross Cascades Region Executive Director Morgan Schmidt to talk about ways the Red Cross supports the community and their need for more volunteers (and blood donations).
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A high-tech boat outfitted with sonar and cameras is trying to try to solve the mystery of a 1968 plane crash that killed three people in Michigan’s Lake Superior. Seat cushions and pieces of stray metal have washed ashore over decades in the Upper Peninsula. But the wreckage of the plane, and the
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wagmeister, Lauren Del Valle and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — Harvey Weinstein was “rushed” to Bellevue Hospital in New York on Sunday night “due to several medical conditions,” according to representatives for the disgraced former movie producer. “We can confirm that Mr. Weinstein had a procedure and surgery on his heart today,” Weinstein’s spokesman Juda Engelmayer and prison consultant
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is trying to reassure supporters that her opposition coalition still has a chance of gaining control of the presidency despite the departure into exile of their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. Machado’s group maintains that it has evidence that González won the July 28 presidential election
Continue ReadingBEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — A neighbor of an Oregon nurse who was found dead just days after her wedding was arraigned Monday on charges of second-degree murder, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse. Bryce Schubert, 27, was formally informed in court of the charges against him in the death of Melissa Jubane, 32. Police said
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery at a New York City hospital on Monday. Weinstein’s representatives said the 72-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan from the Rikers Island jail complex late Sunday “due to severe medical conditions.” News of Weinstein’s hospitalization was first reported
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is rejecting a proposal Speaker Mike Johnson has put forward that links continued government funding for six months with a measure to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Jeffries says in a letter to House Democrats Monday that the proposal is “unserious and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police have arrested several top leaders from former imprisoned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s opposition party, a day after some people clashed with the police a mile from a protest calling for his release. Among the detainees, accused of inciting violence, was the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Gohar
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and The Lane Regional Air Protection Agency issued a new air quality advisory Monday for the following areas due to smoke from fires in Oregon: Crook County Deschutes County Eastern Douglas County Southern Grant County Northern Harney County Southern Jefferson County Northern Klamath County Northern
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN New York (CNN) — Justice Elena Kagan pushed back on Monday against critics of an enforceable code of ethics for the Supreme Court, telling an audience in New York that it would help ensure confidence in an institution that polls show has lost the trust of many Americans. “It seems like
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — As a movie, “Nightbitch” captures some of the truest and rawest but seldom Instagrammed things about early motherhood. For its star Amy Adams and its writer-director Marielle Heller, “Nightbitch” is about as close to the bone as it gets. Adams plays a woman credited only as “Mother.” Raising a
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Over the weekend several new wildfires became realized as storms on Friday and Saturday generated dry lightning sparking new flames. The focus this weekend was varied as a couple new fires (Firestone and Flat Top) began over the high desert and grew quickly, while several smaller fires ignited over the Cascades (Mt. Bachelor Complex and
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Department of Justice has sued Maine for what it described as unnecessarily segregating children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities and a state-operated juvenile detention facility. Investigators say the actions violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court’s 1999 Olmstead ruling, which aimed to ensure that people with disabilities
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board at an upcoming hearing. The Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic in June 2023, killing all five
Continue ReadingBUCKEYE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in the Phoenix suburb of Buckeye are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl who was left in a vehicle for more than two hours in triple-digit heat. They say the girl’s family had returned home from an outing at a park around 2:30 p.m. Sunday and nobody realized she
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal grand jury in California has handed up charges unsealed on Monday against two men who allegedly led an online group that pushed others to attack politicians or commit hate crimes as part of an effort to bring down the US government. The men, 37-year-old Matthew Allison and
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Victims reported more than $5.6 billion in fraud related to cryptocurrency in 2023, a 45% increase from losses reported in 2022, the FBI said Monday in a new report. A jump in crypto-related investment scams fueled the overall increase in fraud. Victims reported nearly $4 billion in crypto-related investment
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) –– El Ministerio Público de Perú anunció el comienzo de “diligencias preliminares tras la muerte de la excanciller Ana Cecilia Gervasi Díaz, a quien se le encontró sin vida en su departamento” en Lima este domingo. La Policía halló el cuerpo de la exfuncionaria luego de que el canciller Elmer Schialer
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s wife and E Street bandmate, says she has been dealing with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. In a documentary about the band that premiered Sunday, the 71-year-old Scialfa said she was diagnosed in 2018 with the disease. The guitarist said the condition
Continue ReadingBy Hira Humayun, Lauren Izso, Niamh Kennedy, Avery Schmitz, Richard Roth and Jomana Karadsheh, CNN (CNN) — Shots were fired during the Israeli military’s hours-long detention of a convoy of United Nations vehicles in Gaza, the UN Secretary General’s spokesperson said Tuesday. The situation “escalated quickly” after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stopped the convoy
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